Mom Advice: 10 Life Lessons from Mom (Greatest Hits)

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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With Mother's Day coming up, I wanted to share some of the best advice and lessons I got from mom growing up. Most of the time, this was pretty literal advice, but I found a lot of it has a broader application to entrepreneurship. Mom has always been probably my biggest advocate and supporter. For background, she essentially had a couple different careers, first in nursing and then as a library assistant. (At the library, she actually helped me get one of my first jobs in high school.) Lots of wisdom I hope to be able to pass along to our little ones! And if you like this format, be sure to check out the companion list/episode on dad's advice! Full Show Notes: Mom Advice: 10 Life Lessons from Mom New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! OpenPhone — Streamline and scale your customer communications with Open Phone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at www.openphone.com/sidehustle. Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!

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0:00.0	Here's an oldie but a goodie from the archives from the side hustle show Greatest Hits
0:04.9	Collection. What's up? What's up Nick? Loper here. Welcome to The Side Hustle show because
0:09.9	the best time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining. Had tip to JFK for that one, special
0:16.3	Mother's Day edition of the show for you this week featuring 10 bits of advice and wisdom from mom.
0:23.6	The dad advice episode we did last June for Father's Day was a lot of fun and it was pretty popular.
0:29.6	So I'm going to attempt to revisit that format today just with Mom providing the often very literal advice and me over analyzing it 30 years later.
0:40.0	That Father's Day episode was number 393, if you want to go back and check it out.
0:45.7	So first, a little bit about mom for the sake of context here.
0:49.6	She essentially had two careers, the first in nursing, and the second as a library assistant,
0:55.8	where she actually helped me get one of my first jobs, getting paid to reshelf books.
1:00.6	This is like the perfect introvert gig. Plus, it paid time and a half on Sundays, which was like
1:06.0	12 or 13 bucks an hour. Pretty good high school job. But mom encouraged both work and work ethic at an early
1:14.8	age, both in my brother and I, by her own example and by setting expectations. More on that
1:20.3	in a bit. But mom's probably always been my biggest advocate and supporter, even if the online
1:26.1	business models that I was playing around with
1:27.8	weren't always easy to explain to her friends. Like, oh, I think he sells shoes on the internet. I don't
1:33.1	know. He seems to be doing okay. You know how bloggers always joke about like the early days of their
1:38.4	blog when it's only their mom reading? Those are not jokes. Those are 100% true. And it's not only that, she would
1:44.9	leave comments. And I'd want to say, well, that's fine. Just don't put your last name or don't put
1:49.5	mom in the name field. Like make it look legit. So here we go. Ten lessons from mom that stand out and
1:55.3	have stuck with me over the years. Number one is to keep reading and to keep writing. My brother and I, you'll hear from
2:03.1	Chris in a minute. You know, we watched our fair share of TV and we played our fair share of video
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